Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions – requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs – there was no attention given to preparation for this office.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONI think if women would indulge more freely in vituperation, they would enjoy ten times the health they do. It seems to me they are suffering from repression.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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You who have read the history of nations, from Moses down to our last election, where have you ever seen one class looking after the interests of another?
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God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length.
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Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
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The new religion will teach the dignity of human nature and its infinite possibilities for development. It will teach the solidarity of the race: that all must rise and fall as one. Its creed will be justice, liberty, equality for all the children of earth.
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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Religious superstitions more than all other influences put together cripple & enslave woman, but so long as women themselves do not see it & hug their chains, we have a great educational work to do.
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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.
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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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Heavenly Father and Mother, make us thankful for all the blessings of this life, and make us ever mindful of the patient hands that oft in weariness spread our tables and prepare our daily food. For humanity’s sake, Amen.
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